2 example sentences using flea-bitten.

Flea-bitten used in a sentence

Flea-bitten in a sentence as an adjective

Looking at the state of dogs crawling with fleas, I'd say the flea-bitten-dog hypothesis, at least in this respect, is holding up.

Here's me 6-inches deep in mud sitting on a firing step, thirsty and flea-bitten, nursing my shrapnel wound; there's Joe going home without a scratch on him?

Flea-bitten definitions

adjective

worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"

See also: creaky decrepit derelict run-down woebegone